New Hampshire Children's Trust announced that Thomas Barton, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, has joined its board of directors.

William Abdu, MD, is the medical director of the Spine Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. He is also a member of the DHMC Board of Governors. He is an associate professor of orthopedics and of The Dartmouth Institute, part of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He was one of the early proponents of the electronic and wireless methods of assessing patient reported outcomes, now commonly referred to as H-Quest.

Seacoast Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Somersworth, N.H., will soon complete a renovation of its clinic that includes a 6,500-square-foot addition, according to a report by Foster's Daily Democrat.

Joshua A. Siegel, MD, is director of sports medicine for Access Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics in Exeter, N.H. He was recently named as a "top doctor" by New Hampshire Magazine for the sixth time.

New Hampshire Magazine has named Joshua A. Siegel, MD, of Access Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics in Exeter, N.H., as a "top doctor" in its April 2010 issue, according to a report by Foster's Daily Democrat.

Manchester, N.H., and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire have launched a program which offers financial incentives to city employees who choose to receive healthcare in lower-cost facilities for a range of high-volume, elective healthcare services, including outpatient surgery, routine health screenings and diagnostic imaging, according to an Anthem BCBS news release.

Southern New Hampshire Medical Center agreed to pay a $33,400 civil settlement to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting bills to federal healthcare programs for a nursing assistant who had been excluded from these programs, according to a press release from the US Attorney's office (District of New Hampshire).

Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

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Orthopedic Surgeon Kenneth C. Spengler, MD, is leaving 15-member Access Sports Medicine and Orthopedics in Exeter, N.H., to join Core Physicians, a multi-specialty group practice affiliated with Exeter Hospital, according to the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald.